‘Avoid management babble and think like a customer if you want to be a CEO’

Allan Leighton, the former Mars marketing director who went on to become chief executive of Asda, has advised marketers wanting to make into the C-Suite to avoid talking “management babble” and keep their approach to leadership “simple” by thinking as customers.

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